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COMMITTEE ON ARTS 
AND DECORATION 

Tfie Mayor's Committee on 
National Defence 




HALL OF RECORDS 
NEW YORK 



[ October, 1918 ] 



COMMITTEE b^ ARTS 
AND DECORATION 



This committee was organized for the 
purpose of developing the field of art 
in connection with the war, where the 
services of artists, architects, sculptors 
and those practising the allied arts 
are employed. 

A Bureau of Information has heen 
established to advise and direct those 
seeking to apply their talents to work 
connected with the war. No group of 
men in the country has arisen to the 
occasion in a finer spirit and none 
have rendered a more notable service 
to the country. Here may be obtained 
accurate and official information con- 
cerning the designing of pictorial 
placards for government purposes, 
cartoons, landscape targets, pictorial 
records of America's war activities, 
military and naval camouflage, deco- 
rations for Liberty Loan and other 
purposes, as well as where sculptors 
and architects are needed. A leaflet 
containing suggestions and informa- 
tion has been prepared, for gratuitous 
distribution. 

A Division of Exhibitions has been 
formed to further the cause of picto- 
rial propaganda. The British govern- 
ment is fully alive to the value of such 
exhibitions and has sent two exhibi- 
tions to this country, one of litho- 
graphs and one of paintings, besides 
many photographs. The lithographs 
have thrice been shown under the aus- 



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pices of this conimittee. An exhibition 
designed to make known the extent of 
our war preparations, miHtary, naval 
and industrious, is now in active prep- 
aration and will be sho^vn in many 
parts of the country. This exhibition 
will also minister to the morale of our 
people and that of our allies; it will, 
in addition, since the standard of ar- 
tistic excellence will be high, do its 
part in raising the standard of art aj)- 
23reciation in this country. Another 
exhibition planned is of French and 
British war posters and other litho- 
graphs; another is an Allied War 
Salon. A collection of 125 colored 
facsimiles of cartoons by Racmaekers 
is now being shown in the various 
cantonments. In arranging these ex- 
hibitions the Committee will coope- 
rate with the Division of Pictorial 
Publicity of the Committee on Public 
Information, as well as with the Amer- 
ican Federation of Arts. Mr. C. D. 
Gibson is chairman of the Division of 
Pictorial Publicity and Mr. A. E. 
Gallatin is chairman of their com- 
mittee on exhibitions. Mr. Duncan 
Phillips is on the committee on exhi- 
bitions of the American Federation 
of Arts. Messrs. Gibson, Gallatin 
and Phillips are all members of the 
committee on Ai'ts and Decoration. 
The Committee on Arts and Deco- 
ration assisted in the artistic censor- 
ing of the historic floats, banners and 
costumes appearing in the great In- 
dependence Day Pageant-Parade held 
in New York in 1918. The Advisory 



Art Committee of the Liberty Loan 
Committee has asked for the closest 
cooperation between the tAvo commit- 
tees. These are but two examples of 
the wide and useful scope of this com- 
mittee in coordinating art work in so 
far as it affects the community. 



COMMITTEE ON ARTS AND DECORATION 
Albert Eugene Gallatin, Chairman 
Lloyd Warren, Vice-Chairman 

BUREAU OF INFORMATION 
Edward P. Gaston, Secretary 

DIVISION OF EXHIBITIONS 
Duncan Phillips 
Augustus V. Tack 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

Herbert Adams Charles Dana Gibson 

Paul W. Bartlett Thomas Hastings 

Nicholas Murray Butler Archer M. Huntington 
Robert W. de Forest Clarence H. Mackav 



GENERAL COMMITTEE 
Robert Abbe Ernest Iselin 

John Quincy Adams Arthur Curtiss James 

Charles B. Alexander Roland F. Knoedler 

S. Reading Bertron George F. Kunz 

Bryson Burroughs Ernest Lawson 

F. D. Casey Hermon A. MacNeil 

William A. Clark H. Van Buren Magonigle 

Robert W. Chanler Paul Manship 

Francis W. Crowninshield Howard Mansfield 
R. Fulton Cutting W. H. de B. Nelson 

Guy Pene du Bois William Jay Schieifelin 

Charles M. Gay Arthur H, Scribner 

William J. Glackens Henry Renwick Sedgwick 

Jules Guerin John Sloane 

Childe Hassam Charles H. Sherrill 

William Warner Hoppin Joseph E. Stevens 



Suggestions and information for 
Artists, Architects, Sculptors, and 
those practicing the Allied Arts 
desiring to apply their knowledge 
to War Work 




Prepared by A. E. Gallatin, Chairman, 

Committee on Arts and Decoration of The 

Mayor's Committee on National Defense, 

Hall of Records, New York 

[ September, 1918 ] 



Artists 

1. Posters 

Painters and illustrators wishing to design posters and 
other pictorial placards to be used by the Government 
for patriotic purposes should apply to the Division of 
Pictorial Publicity of the Committee on Public In- 
formation, at 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Charles 
Dana Gibson is chairman and F. D. Casey is vice 
chairman and secretary. Drawings and paintings, 
which must be offered gratuitously, are required for 
Liberty Loan and War Savings Stamps drives, to urge 
conservation of food and coal, to speed up shipbuild- 
ing, for recruiting, and various Red Cross purposes. 
Poster artists may also apply to the Art War Relief, 
661 Fifth Avenue, New York. Artists and illustrators 
possessing a knowledge of naval matters should apply 
to the U. S. Navy Publicity Bureau, at 318 West 39t'h 
Street, New York. 

2. Cartoons 

Never before has the poster artist enjoyed such a 
golden opportunity ; this is also true of the cartoonist. 
It has been said of Raemaekers that "He more than 
any other individual, has made intensely clear to the 
people the single issue upon which the war is joined. 
More than cartoonist, he is teacher and preacher, with 
a vision, faith, and intensity of a St. Francis, a Luther, 
or a Joan of Arc. . . . The pencil in his hands be- 
comes an avenging sword, because by it millions of 
people have been aroused to a clear cut realization of 
the fact that the issue of this war is no less than 
Slavery and Autocracy versus Freedom and Democ- 
racy. . . . No oration, no literature, no art, has 
brought the real meaning of the war home so convinc- 
ingly as these cartoons." 

3. Designation Targets 

Designation, or landscape, targets are used for class 
room instruction. They should depict typical French 
rural scenery and should be painted in clear and bright 
colors. The sizes vary from 3 by 6 feet to 5 by 12 feet. 
These landscapes are used to visualize the country, for 
panoramic sketching, for working out problems of of- 
fense and defense, for target designation according to 
the clock face method in machine gun, artillery and 
rifle practice, and for other purposes. Further infor- 



mation may be obtained from Mrs. H. Van Buren 
Magonigle, Chairman of Painters' Committee, Art War 
Relief, 661 Fifth Avenue, New York. 

4. Record of America's Activities 

Many illustrators and painters have been making pic- 
torial records of America's military, naval and in- 
dustrial activities. These are shown throughout the 
country, as well as being reproduced in the press, 
and serve, as only pictorial publicity and propaganda 
can, to acquaint our people and those of our allies with 
the extent and magnitude of our preparations, thus 
strengthening their morale. Eight illustrators, commis- 
sioned captains in the Engineers' Reserve Corps of the 
army, are now in France depicting our activities ; their 
drawings should form a very valuable historical record. 

Architects 

Architects desiring to engage in Government work 
should apply to Otto Eidlitz, Director of Bureau of 
Industrial Housing and Transportation, Department 
of Labor, Washington. 

Sculptors 

Many sculptors have entered the Camouflage unit 
(40th Engineers). Others are designing memorials, 
medals which are sold for the benefit of the Red Cross 
and other charities, and Congressional Medals. The 
services of sculptors have not as yet been required by 
the Medical Corps in this country; it is understood 
that later on they probably will be. At a later date 
application should be made to the Surgeon General, 
War Department, Washington. In England many 
sculptors are co-operating with surgeons in facial 
surgery. 

Military Camouflage 

The Camouflage unit forms a part of the Corps of 
Engineers of the National Army. It is a military 
organization composed of artists, architects, sculptors, 
scene painters, sign painters, house painters, carpen- 
ters, ornamental iron workers, tinsmiths, plasterers, 
photographers, stage carpenters and property men. The 
work in general deals with the concealment of gun 
emplacements, trenches and sheds of military value; 
tlie screening of roads and the manufacture of mate- 
rials for this purpose; the painting of roofs and large 
areas of canvas for the covering of ammunition stor- 
age and the like; the making of various devices and 



clothing for the concealment of observers and sniper 
and occasionally the painting of a scenic drop. It 
not contemplated that there will be any expansion • 
this service in this country. It is suggested that app] 
cants enlist as it is possible that they may find oppo 
tunity in any branch of the service to make use o 
their qualifications ; then subsequent to being sen 
abroad, request transfer to the 40th Engineers (Cam 
ouflage). This corps is under the supervision of th( 
Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, Washington. Ther( 
will be a course in camouflage at Columbia University 
beginning September 30th. 

Marine Camoujiage 

Marine camouflage is done under the direction o 
the Navy Department. The work is executed by tlw 
United States Shijsping Board Emergenc\^ Fleet Cor 
poration's department of camouflage. In each distric 
is stationed a district camoufleur, with a corps o: 
trained men. A school has been established by th( 
Shipping Board for men who have already been ap 
pointed as camoufleurs. The quota is complete anc 
there is a waiting list of over a thousand applicants 
Another school has been established at the Great Lake; 
Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois. "Baffle 
painting" has taken the place of attempts to rendei 
vessels invisible. This distorts the outlines of the shij 
and misleads the submarine as to the craft's size, char 
acter, and her course. 

Decorations 

The services of artists, sculptors and architects, a 
well as those engaged in the allied arts, are in coi 
stant demand by committees appointed to arrange fo 
special decorations. H. Van Buren Magonigle is chair- 
man of an advistory art commission chosen by the 
Publicity Department of the I-iberty Loan Committei 
for New York to arrange for decorations on Fiftl 
Avenue and Broadway. Associated with him an 
Herbert Adams, Paul Bartlett, Edwin H. Blashfiek 
and Charles Dana Gibson. The hundred or more floats 
and other decorative effects, used in the last Inde- 
pendence Day Pageant-Parade in New York called 
into service the special knowledge possessed by al' 
professions practicing the arts and crafts. Specia 
decorations are frequently employed in New York o 
the occasion of visits from foreign missions; the 
erected in honor of Viviani, Joffre and Balfour w 
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